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Cairo - Museum of
Egyptian Antiquities
Postcard sent over
by Tanya
Ramsess II
19th Dynasty
1279 - 1212 BC
Ramsses II ruled 67
years, and died at the age of 92 years
In 1976 the mummy was flown to Paris where the great Ramsses II
exhibition was made
The trip was also to receive treatment because parts of the mummy
started to decay
It was X-rayed,
and the nose was found to have maintained its shape because it
was filled with peppercorn
In France he was treated as a visiting royality, although he had
been dead for 3200 years
In Paris Airport he was received by a full Presidential Guard
of Honour